Damn it! She offered far too much.
Ling'er, a true man knows what he should and shouldn't do. I've wronged you!
Long Xiao cried out in his heart.
Soon, nine-colored light swallowed him.
No one knew what happened within that nine-colored curtain of light over the next day and night.
One day later.
Long Xiao lay beside the lake, looking as though someone had bullied him, so pitiful that anyone would have felt sorry for him.
Medusa's divine beast body truly was formidable. He couldn't withstand her. She kept shifting between human and snake forms, sometimes coiling around him so tightly that it hurt.
After all, he possessed a divine physique-the dragon god sacred body.
Yet even he had felt the strain.
Medusa sat awkwardly beside him, her head lowered the entire time, not daring to look at Long Xiao.
She had lost her senses then, but she knew what she had done to Long Xiao. Just thinking about it filled her with unbearable shame, making her wish she could find a hole to crawl into.
In a sense, Long Xiao was her benefactor.
"Ahem!"
Long Xiao cleared his throat a few times, breaking the silence. "Well, Your Majesty, aren't you going to take responsibility?"
Hearing his words, Medusa nearly spat up three pints of blood. This fellow had already taken advantage of her, yet he still had the nerve to bring it up?
Her cheeks instantly flushed a vivid, alluring crimson.
"Y-you... how do you want me to take responsibility?" Medusa stammered, barely able to get her words out.
Long Xiao had no intention of letting her off. "What do you think? Surely the mighty Queen Medusa isn't planning to walk away after doing something wrong? That won't do! You have to take responsibility for me!"
"You... you..."
Medusa glared angrily at Long Xiao, but didn't know what to say.
"What do you want? As long as it is within my power."
"Really?"
Long Xiao looked at Medusa expectantly, his expression just like a child begging for sweets.
Seeing him like this, more than half of Medusa's anger melted away. She said helplessly, "As long as it's something I can do, I'll definitely agree."
Long Xiao chuckled and walked straight up to Medusa. Ignoring her objections, he pulled her into his arms and kissed her cheek.
"You!!!" Medusa was overwhelmed with shame and anger. She tried to struggle, only to discover that her body wouldn't obey her. Unable to muster any strength, she could only let Long Xiao do as he pleased.
"How about taking responsibility like this?"
"I... I..."
Medusa was momentarily speechless, unsure how to answer.
It seemed she couldn't beat Long Xiao either. Even though she had already reached Four-Star Dou Zong, he still felt unfathomable to her!
"I helped you evolve into a divine beast. Surely you won't refuse? Of course, you can refuse if you want. I'll just consider it my loss and take it that Her Majesty is a heartless, ungrateful woman."
Long Xiao watched Medusa with a smile, cunning glinting in his eyes. Would guilt-tripping work on a woman like her?
Medusa gritted her teeth.
After a series of inner struggles, she finally made up her mind.
After all, she had caused this mess, and deep down, she wasn't particularly averse to Long Xiao.
"I... can agree, but I still need the elders' approval."
Medusa spoke softly, her face red.
"That's easy. Those old fellows back there, right? I'll be right back."
Long Xiao ran off jubilantly.
Watching his retreating figure, Medusa's lips curved into an enchanting smile for reasons she couldn't explain.
Deep within the tribe lay a small oasis.
Within that oasis stood the Bamboo Garden, the residence of the Snake-People Tribe's Four Great Elders.
Long Xiao arrived and walked straight into the Bamboo Garden.
The moment he stepped inside, he felt four auras approaching the Dou Emperor level lock onto him.
"Human! How dare you trespass here! Such audacity!"
An explosive roar came from inside the house.
Long Xiao raised an eyebrow, and the elders' oppressive auras instantly collapsed. Ignoring them, he walked straight into the house and shut the door behind him.
"You..."
"Who are you!"
"You..."
Seeing Long Xiao enter their Bamboo Garden with such arrogance, all four elders roared furiously.
Long Xiao glanced at them. They were four elderly female Snake-People.
He straightened up, then spoke respectfully. "My name is Long Xiao. Queen Medusa and I are in love, but she said she needed your approval, so here I am."
The four elders froze at his words, then burst into laughter.
"Are you making fools of us?"
"How could the queen have gotten involved with a human like you? Utterly ridiculous."
"Exactly! Queen Medusa is the pride of the Snake-People Tribe. How could she possibly like you?"
The four elders continued mocking Long Xiao.
Long Xiao didn't mind. He had plenty of ways to make them agree. Smiling, he said, "That's how things stand. I only hope to receive a reasonably satisfactory answer."
As he finished speaking, Long Xiao released his aura with an air of casual nonchalance.
The four elders' expressions changed drastically!
So powerful!
Before this power, the Dou Qi within their bodies was as fragile as a thin sheet of paper.
They didn't dare speak again and could only watch Long Xiao silently.
Long Xiao walked slowly toward the four elders. With every step, sweat broke out over their bodies. Beads of cold sweat the size of beans rolled down their foreheads and dripped onto the floor.
"Oh dear, I dropped my things."
He suddenly stopped. At some point, ten glittering treasure chests had appeared on the floor.
Long Xiao deliberately opened every chest, and golden light illuminated the entire Bamboo Garden.
All four elders' eyes lit up. The treasures inside those chests were rarities seldom seen!
"B-big... big sister, am I seeing things? Is that a chest of high-tier pills? Judging by their auras, even the worst seem to be seventh-tier!"
The second elder looked at the first elder, her eyes brimming with greed.
"That's right! They truly are seventh-tier pills! And there are so many! This human is no ordinary person! I wonder which great figure took him as a disciple. To possess such treasures!" The first elder was equally excited.
"Look at that chest! Those are magic cores and blood essence from high-tier magical beasts!"
The third elder's jaw dropped again. At the sight of the magic cores in the chest, her eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets. Even selling the entire Snake-People Tribe wouldn't buy such treasures, yet here was a whole chest of them.
"There are also so many supreme-grade medicinal herbs!"
"And those-could they be Earth-tier and Heaven-tier cultivation methods? Such powerful fluctuations."
All four elders' eyes shone with burning desire. They had completely forgotten their dignity.
Though the four of them had cultivated for a long time, they had never managed to break through. Their strength had remained at Peak Dou Wang, and after so many years, they no longer knew how long they had been stuck there.
This was yearning!
What lay before them wasn't treasure, but hope for the Snake-People Tribe's revival!
Even selling a hundred Jia Ma Empires probably wouldn't equal the value of these ten chests!
"Ah, there's so much of this junk in my Storage Ring that some fell out without me noticing. I'll put it away right now."
Long Xiao waved a hand, and all the treasure chests vanished again.
Too much junk?
Did that mean he had plenty more junk like this?
The four elders' eyes widened in shock, their mouths hanging wide open.
Even their breathing grew rapid.
Rich man, let's be friends! I love this kind of precious junk!
"Since the elders don't agree, there's nothing I can do. I'll leave now."
Long Xiao shrugged, putting on a helpless expression, then prepared to turn and leave.
"Wait!" the four elders hurriedly called out.
"What? Have the elders changed their minds?"
Long Xiao smiled faintly, his face radiant as sunshine.
"Young Master Long, say no more. I'm willing! I wonder, would you be interested in taking another concubine? Though this old woman..." the first elder said hastily.
What?
Long Xiao was dumbfounded, staring at the first elder in bewilderment.
The other three elders also looked at the first elder. They could hardly believe that the normally composed first elder had said something like that... now that she had said it, what was left for them to say?
Long Xiao recovered his senses. "I only want Medusa. Just give me an answer. Do you agree or not?"
Apart from the first elder, the other three nodded frantically, expressing their approval of the marriage.
"Oh, call me Flower! You tease!"
The first elder looked at Long Xiao and winked flirtatiously. The sight was simply too much to bear.
Yet another woman corrupted by money.
Uh...
Seeing this, Long Xiao stopped bothering about the first elder's attitude. He turned and left, vanishing from the house.
He didn't want to stay any longer. If he did, he would go mad.
The moment Long Xiao left, the first elder sank into sorrow. Didn't the ancients say that everyone was the same once the lights went out?
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